Chapter 4:

Back in Los Angeles, Chloe was sitting at the counter of a bar. It was a bar where you wouldn't search for one of the best detectives the city of angels had to offer, or at least that is what she once was. After Lucifer disappeared, she started drinking a lot, coming to work late, which resulted in being the lowest of the lowest at the precinct. The time that she ordered everyone around flew away with every time she appeared either late or drunk, or both. Dan already had taken full custody of their daughter, Trixie, she had limited visits right under supervision. Only because Trixie wanted to see her mother, although her dad had explained that she was at fault that Lucifer had disappeared. He and Ella had been the only ones he had sent a letter to explain everything to them as much as they could understand without being in the know.

He had made a promise that Trixie was allowed to come and visit once he had found a place to settle down if Dan promised never ever to reveal where he was living.

Dan had promised this mostly for Trixie's sake. Who on her turn had promised too.

The inside of the bar was covered with dark wood. The walls still had the dirty brown color that made you think back to the time when smoking inside was still allowed. A time when you couldn't see further than the chair next to you due to all the smoke. A bar where she would search her suspects.

She had placed her elbows on the dark brown, almost black colored bar, in her hands a glass of scotch. She stared at the glass, not noticing the people who entered or the people who had left the place.

She took the glass and swallowed the brown liquid in one big gulp, "Bartender! I want another one." She staggered in a loud voice, obviously drunk.

"I think you had enough of this." the bartender, a heavy bald guy with a body filled with tattoos. One of those tattoos was a big cross that was hugged by a fierce black dragon, surrounding it like he wanted to guard it like his most precious possession, in the middle of the cross was what looked like a large ruby.

"I will decide when I have enough, nobody but me!" She yelled, smashing her hand against the counter.

"Listen, lady, I don't know what your deal is, but go home and go to bed." The bartender said in a calm voice. I wasn't going to argue though.

"Why would I? Nobody is waiting for me? I've ruined everything, anyway." Chloe sighed, she couldn't hold her tears inside anymore, "I made some of the biggest mistakes in my life, not taking it seriously what my heart already knew was the truth. Now he is gone for good."

The bartender rolled his eyes, she was hardly the first person who came and drink away her sorrow, "Why don't you go and have a good night's rest and go after him if you love him so much."

"He left LA. I don't even know where to look for him." Chloe sighed, "but I know someone who does." Chloe jumped up almost forgetting to pay the man. She was ready to take her keys when he grabbed them first, "Oh no, missy, you can come back tomorrow to retrieve your keys, I will not be held responsible for anything. I will call you a cab."

"I know what I am doing! Give me back my keys!" Chloe yelled trying to grab over the counter but she couldn't do it because of the amount of alcohol in her blood.

"As I said, you can get your keys back tomorrow when you are sober again." The bartender said and placed the keys in a drawer behind the bar.

Chloe groaned, but there was nothing else she could do, so she stood up and left the place. She walked immediately to the one person who could tell her where Lucifer was right now.

Linda and were about to go to bed when someone was banging on her door, yelling so loud that the dogs in the neighborhood started barking.

"That sounds like Chloe." Linda said in a whisper, "Why would she come over at this time of the night?"

Amenadiel shrugged his shoulders, "I have no idea but there is only one way to find out." He walked towards the door and she came tumbling in.

"Chloe, have you been drinking?" was the first thing Amenadiel asked.

"Yes, I have been drinking." She staggered loudly, "You have to help my Amenadiel. You are my only hope of fixing my mistakes."

"Shhh, Charlie is asleep." Linda whispered, "Chloe, this isn't you. What is wrong?"

"Amenadiel needs to help me find Lucifer. You can tell me where he is right?" Chloe said losing the fight with her balance.

"Yes, I should be able to feel where he is right now…" Amenadiel started but was interrupted by Chloe.

"Good, so where can I find him?"

"Chloe, honey, I don't think it's a good idea that you are going to look for him. How long have you been like this?" Linda asked trying to change the subject.

"Why won't you let him help me? I need to tell him that I love him. That I don't care if he is God or the devil." Chloe almost yelled. Tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Chloe, he was pretty clear that we had to leave him alone, and me chasing him hasn't had the best of consequences in the past. For once I am going to respect his wishes to be left alone. The only thing I can say is that he is still on this plane." Amenadiel answered.

"Linda?" Chloe asked looking at her for help.

"I am sorry, Chloe but Amenadiel is right. Lucifer made his wishes pretty clear. He wants to have nothing to do with us anymore. That's his right to leave and build a new life elsewhere. The only thing we can do is hope that someday he will change his mind and come back to LA." Linda tried to tell her this as carefully as possible, "Lucifer is an adult, honey. If you can speak of adulthood in angel terms, but you know what I mean."

"I really thought you were my friends." Chloe sighed.

"We are Chloe and we will do everything to help you, but you know how important free will is for Lucifer." Amenadiel sighed.

"I don't understand you, Amenadiel. You chased him for millennia, and when I ask you, you won't even say where I should look for him." Chloe said between her tears.

"Yes, I chased after him, but what did I get out of it? A brother who I didn't understand, a feeling of hatred between him and me. I don't want that anymore, Chloe. I want him to know that no matter what, he will always be welcome here." Amenadiel said calmly.

"I am going to find him no matter what it takes." She said angrily smashing the door behind her while she walked out rewarding Linda and Amenadiel with the sound of a crying child.

They both looked at the sky and walked towards Charlie's room with a groan. This was going to be another long night without the help of Charlie's favorite uncle.

Ella was reading the letter she had just finished a letter she had received in the mail from her apartment a few years ago. It was the letter she was reading every single day.

It was a letter from someone she had missed tremendously, a letter from Lucifer. It was a letter to say goodbye to her, telling her that he still considered her his little human sister but that the events of the past year were just too much for him to stay in Los Angeles. He also explained in the smallest detail why he had chosen to leave his other so-called friends. He also asked to tell Beatrice that he was sorry for leaving her. They were the two humans he was going to miss the most. A ps caught her eye, 'I will leave you my new phone number, please do not give them to anyone else. It's only for you to use. You are the only one in Los Angeles I still trust. Forever your brother, Lucifer'

Just like, Dan and Beatrice she had made the promise never to reveal anything to other people.

She wiped the tears from her cheeks when someone was ringing her doorbell like a crazy person.

She took the phone from her buzzer to hear who was calling her at this hour of the night. She had to swallow her anger when she heard that was Chloe.

"I don't think it's a good idea to come up here, Chloe." She tried to stay polite, "I was just about to go to bed."

"Please, Ella it won't take long. It's about Lucifer." Chloe said still drunk.

"Go to bed, Decker, and talk to me tomorrow when you are sober again." Ella said sternly, "I don't think there is much I can do right now." Ella placed the horn back on the buzzer.

Chloe kicked her foot against the wall where she had found the doorbells of the whole block before leaving the block. Clearly, Ella wasn't going to help her tonight. There was only one person that she could think of that could possibly help her now.

It was the one person who she didn't want to ask for help but she was desperate.

She walked for about twenty minutes before she arrived at Lux. Lux had changed since Lucifer gave it to the one angel she hated above all the others.

She took the private elevator to the penthouse, her heart was beating in her throat but her need to find Lucifer was bigger than her fear for his twin.

The elevator's doors opened and the angel laid down on the couch with a glass of vodka in his hand.

"Miss Decker." The angel said with a grin that gave Chloe shivers over her whole body.

"Michael." Chloe staggered but trying to keep her cool.

TBC